Word: timeless
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...escapism is more timeless: this is an all-black show with absolutely no references to white people, pro or con. The nearest it comes to relevance is a rudimentary feminism, at one point disavowing the sexism of some of the vintage numbers. One can get all humorless and huffy about the feathered costume for Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens and the rest of the cheery inanity. One can insist that the theater be meaningful and memorable. Or one can, more sensibly, check one's higher consciousness at the door and have a shallow but rollicking time...
These entries reflect both a specific moment in history and the timeless cry of the old man who believes the world has been in steady decline since his youth. Not only was FDR ruining the democratic system; the whole nation was collapsing...
Shadows and Fog is most obviously an exercise in style, a beautifully made tribute to the expressionistic cinema of 1920s Germany. It's all here: a homicidal maniac stalking the menacing night streets of a nameless, timeless city; a circus and a brothel populated by fringe figures who, naturally, are less hypocritical socially and sexually than the police, the church and the bourgeoisie; a score that features the music of Kurt Weill; lighting and a camera that pay homage to the whole Weimar school of cinematography...
This, one realizes, is Lautrec's sardonic revisitation of the timeless Arcadia, whose images in older French painters like Puvis de Chavannes he had mercilessly parodied as a student: a classic instance of how an artist may be unconsciously captivated by the very thing he had sought to escape...
...show achieves absolute emotional believability in the performance of the title role by Spiro Malas, a baritone behemoth who does not stint either the character's crudeness or his virtue. When he stands alone, singing of his needs, the patina of the period slips away and what remains is timeless...